Palin To Skip The Sunday Shows This Weekend
This won't shock you all that much, but Sarah Palin will not be on any of the Sunday shows this weekend.
A source forwards me the Obama campaign TV booker's internal line-up of Sunday show guests, which gets sent out to select political and media insider types. No Palin on it.
NBC's Meet the Press is fielding consultants Paul Begala and Mike Murphy and several others. CBS is hosting Jennifer Granholm, Diane Feinstein and other pols. ABC: Ed Rendell, Sherrod Brown and others. Fox: Claire McCaskill.
Biden isn't on any of the shows, either. But Biden has done a gazillion of these interviews, and no one doubts that he'd appear if asked or directed to.
By contrast, yesterday was supposed to be Palin's triumphant return, where she was to prove that she can withstand scrutiny, despite her disastrous train-wreck interviews and her campaign's subsequent decision to pack her off to far more friendly media confines.
This weekend might have been a logical time for her to step back into the media glare. Alas, it isn't to be. When, then?
Never. I think she made it pretty clear last night that she has no intention of doing any more interviews.
October 3, 2008 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not even Letterman?
I'm so disappointed.
October 3, 2008 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Only with those who let her choose the subject to rant about...like Fox News
October 3, 2008 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
The media should have the guts to react like Letterman, when THE SAVIOR stood him up to rescue the economy in a New York hotel. She has the duty to explain her policies to the press : this is not up to her!!!This is unheard of in a "democracy". Any given dictator at least try to show some fake interest from the press. She plainly explains that real questions annoy her and nobody reacts to that?
If they are elected, we will get what we deserve and the media should be blamed for it as well
October 4, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sigh. No starbursts this weekend.
I think Andrew Sullivan's head is exploding right about now.
October 3, 2008 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lowry's not exactly the go-to guy about interpreting women's signals. He's still under the impression that when his cat shows him affection it means that it loves him when actually it's just hungry.
October 3, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
But. gee, she was on Faux News all day today...
October 3, 2008 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did you note how orchestrated the interviews were? Odd that she fumbles in front of Charlie and Katie, but she's fearless and firm when interviewed by Fox News.
October 3, 2008 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
yeah. Wonder how many takes she needed to get it done.
October 3, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
The McCain campaign likely demands a copy of the questions beforehand.
October 3, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
The two Sarahs
Here is an fairly articulate/rehearsed Sarah Palin discussing the Supreme Court decision regarding Exxon Valdez, in Alaska, in June 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-26MOxH34
Here is a brain dead Sarah Palin with Katie Couric, September 2008 regarding what Supreme Court decisions she did not agree with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXmuhWrlj4
From three months ago, she did not remember the Exxon Valdez decision in the Supreme Court. What does that mean for her qualifications for the position if she blanks out, forgets, cannot hold too many issues at one time?
October 4, 2008 1:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup! She is not helping by being so scripted though. I don't watch Fox News. It's a facade. Bunch of liars. I think it's risky to be seen on that show alone. It tells us, that McCain's campaign doesn't trust her to be interviewed.
They are hoping that the VP debate will give them an advantage in the polls. They don't want her rants in an interview to spoil it. But they can't hide her forever.
But if her own running mate can't trust her on the Sunday morning shows to be interviewed by a few reporters, why should we trust her to know how to handle the important VP job?
Hasn't Bush embarrassed us enough as a nation for the past 8 years? Enough is enough! We need someone who can handle the media without looking like an idiot.
October 4, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sunday Shows are sort of like corrals. Mavericks no likey corrals. You becha, Yup! Yup!..
So this maverick walked into a bar and said, may I call you Joe............
October 3, 2008 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
lmao! awesome
October 3, 2008 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
No...it's COW, Maverick Cow!
October 3, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
You owe me a keyboard, dude!
October 3, 2008 5:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Take THAT damned MSM Media Filter!
October 3, 2008 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Answering question is way too conventional for a Maverick. And dictators.
http://pufferfish.typepad.com/
October 3, 2008 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really want to know WTF she thinks she is. I am not religeous by any deinition, and not spiritual by most, and she is so obviously the False Prophet my hair is standing on end.
Now that a judge in Alaska has reminded the GOP that legislatures have been doling out subpeonas for 220 odd years, this creature will return to Alaska to face the same charges that impeached Bill Clinton.
And she must never rise again.
October 3, 2008 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
But...she WINKS! At YOU! And when that happens, it's like little starbursts all over the place! How can you resist?
And no, I cannot take credit for this little bit of idiocy. It's sire was Rich Lowry.
October 3, 2008 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rich Lowrey?!? That bastion of critical progessive thought? Another sign of the Hypocalypse.
October 3, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hypocalypse POW!
October 3, 2008 6:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Oh, hey, judge, there you go again, looking into the past. We just want to move forward." (wink)
October 3, 2008 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's prechin' ta da McStupid's dat haf ben giv'm da rite bye da Constitution ta vote fer someun' simlair to thar standin' an' representin' thar inerest in gov'ment.
October 3, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not surprised to hear this. She slid into 2nd base last night and made it. I'm sure McCain is trying to figure out if the campaign can afford to just build her a condo there so she doesn't have to try for 3rd.
October 3, 2008 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
... and another thing. One would think that the McCain campaign would feel safe sending her on MTP with Brokaw, right?
October 3, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is so good! ROTFL
October 3, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
:D
October 3, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Forget about the interviews. When is she going to do a press conference?!?!
No VP candidate in modern history has gone a month without doing one. Jesus, even that idiot Qualye was out in front of the pool the day after the RNC ended.
October 3, 2008 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
By her logic, then this is not modern history. Besides... never look back!
October 3, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why look back when you're already charging forward into the past?
October 3, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
just a quick question, when was biden's last press conf?
October 3, 2008 5:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Technically he put himself in front of press on the night of the first debate.
October 3, 2008 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think what last night demonstrated is that Palin can perform if and only if she's allowed notecards.
The major question of the election, as regards Sarah Palin, is now whether or not she can go the ENTIRE next month without ever having to speak without either (1) a teleprompter (2) notecards or (3) fox news.
October 3, 2008 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
gee! I missed that. She was actually performing? Damn! For some strange reason I was under the impression she was dodging any and all questions put to her. By not answering, nothing will stick...make believe Teflon. All she did was go off and talk about things not related to what was asked. Unless, that's what you were calling a performance.
October 3, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
She was speaking in complete sentences. That is what "performing" means by Palin standards.
October 3, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
And let's not forget those starbursty winks!
October 3, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
Winky Starburst -
(I'm still in thrall to Bible Spice - I can't remember who came up with that last night -)
October 3, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
oooh by golly [wink wink] dontcha know!
October 3, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
They both had cue cards.
October 3, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
The difference is, I think, that he had cue cards with notes from which he could develop answers to questions. She had complete answers on hers - including instructions on when to wink - and spit them out in order even if they had nothing to do with the question. And if a particular card didn't fill up the full 90 seconds, she just moved on the next, combining to completely different thoughts into a single response.
That's what it looked like to me, anyway. And that's why she told everybody up front that she was going to answer the questions, she was going to read what they told her to...er, I mean...she was going to speak directly to the American people to get around the filter.
October 3, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I didn't get to watch the whole thing, I heard most of it on the radio. I'll have to go an watch the whole thing . . . wait, I'll have to listen to HER again, never mind.
October 3, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, they both did. The rules said they could, after all. But the interesting thing about Palin here isn't whether she used notes (a normal thing which we expect politicians to do) but whether she is able to minimally function, speak, or answer questions about national issues at all without those notes (something so aberrational that we normally don't even stop to ask whether it might be a problem). We have plenty of examples of Biden speaking politically without notes; the second point isn't a concern with him. But I think the way Palin used her notecards last night, combined with the stark contrast between Palin with her canned responses last night and Palin when she had to go without canned responses in the Couric interview last week, combined with the lessened extent to which we have examples of her going out and facing the press as a normal politician does-- together I think we have strong signs that in Palin's case there might actually be a problem there.
One thing that you'd have to have been watching the debate on TV to have noticed (although the camera angles made it very hard to say for sure, so take this with a grain of salt) but that interested me greatly is that almost constantly throughout the debate, Biden was clearly taking notes. If Palin was doing the same during the debate, I couldn't see signs of it from C-SPAN's camera angle.
October 3, 2008 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
But whatever she was doing behind that podium, it looked suspicious to me. Plus, if she had a blackberry... isn't there a way to have it broadcast into your ear somehow? So she might have had covert sight and sound "guidance" - like some kind of guided missile to keep the words flowing.
October 3, 2008 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing like that could have been possible, she was surrounded by media and cameras on every side.
October 3, 2008 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I believe I read somewhere that they're trying a new tactic with her - only 100% friendly interviews that will force the networks to cover those rather than making her available to the networks. This way they better control her answers as friendly interviewers will either feed her the questions before hand so she can be prepared with an answer or edit out any gaffes.
Basically they're going to try and fake it for the last month.
October 3, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very believable. But jeeze, haven't they already been faking it for about a month? Damn, what a terrible position McCain has gotten himself into. They should put John on suicide watch. Many would be getting ready to slit their wrists at this point, IMO.
October 3, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just come out and say it!
INFOMERICALS
October 3, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
It will be interesting to watch-- I don't think any Presidential candidate, top-ticket or no, has ever taken strategy based entirely around hiding before. I wonder, if they actually do this, will they be able to get to the election without it being commented on? And if the press starts to notice all her interviewers are not just playing softball but actively supporting her, will this cause them to start to call into question her previous "okay, not that bad" performances, like her RNC speech or last night's debate?
October 3, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here is why Sarah Palin asked Senator Biden if she could call him Joe.
She needed that OK, so that she would not be accused of being disrespectful of a US Senator, when she unleash her prepared line: Say it ain't so Joe, which actually is a line from the Chicago Black Sox scandal and shoeless Joe Jackson. She finished it off with Reagan's line: there you go again.
It reveals what an unoriginal Twinkie she really is.
October 3, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup, noticed that and had that thought at the time as well. Very sophomoric, like the pull my finger setup for a fart joke or something.
October 3, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
And I believe that was the only time she called him Joe, so I believe you are correct - it was all about that line, which was perhaps the most contrived of the night. Of course, her entire schtick was contrived but that one was pretty bad. But can't you just see the Corner folks, sitting in Momma Goldberg's penthouse in Manhattan, sipping Chardonnay, high-fiving each other after she said that line. Of course, right after that, Rich Lowry had to excuse himself and he disappeared into the bathroom for several minutes. When he came out, he looked flushed but had a big smile on his face. And if you looked closely enough, there was a little starburst in his eye. Questions still remain, however, about the stain on his slacks.
October 3, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Of course, right after that, Rich Lowry had to excuse himself and..."
lol... that was funny. Wouldn't you think someone - anyone, even - would be embarrassed to write what he did? Dear god, how did it ever come to be that we even recognize his name? I really look forward to the day when assholes like Lowry are a distant memory.
October 3, 2008 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
You could tell she'd been waiting the whole debate to use that line and she finally worked it in there toward the end.
Some people are saying she had a Blackberry on the podium and they fed her lines that way, in addition to the cue cards.
October 3, 2008 5:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
A Blackberry? No shit? Wow... to hell with the questions, *and* any pretense at ethics, I guess.
October 3, 2008 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
For this to work, they had to have negotiated for somebody's mic to be on at the start, so we'd all know she asked.
I could see these clowns actually paying attention to that detail, and thinking it would all be worth the set-up, when that became the zinger that stuck.
October 3, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Letterman just mentioned the set-up ("May I call you Joe?"). Called it cheesy.
In fact, Letterman's ripping her three or four new ones right now. Yeah!
October 4, 2008 12:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sarah Palin's debate flowchart
October 3, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oops link doesn't work: http://politicalwire.com/archives/images/palinflow.gif
October 3, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahaha.. thanks. that was really funny.
October 3, 2008 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
For a bunch of people complaining about "surrendering" and "cutting and running," they sure are a bunch of cowards.
October 3, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
This isn't suprising news at all, especially in light of other McCain news posted today.
McCain's campaign has abandoned any notion of strengthening their brand at this point. The name of the game for them now is to drive up Obama's negatives. It's all they have. That's it.
Prepare yourselves for a barrage of ugliness from the GOP like you ain't never seen.
October 3, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's actually a good thing, Lamont - or at least I think so.
Voters have been reacting negatively to attacks on Obama. And the other part of it I like is it keeps Obama voters stirred up and angry and more than ready to vote.
:)
October 3, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Intrade says it all. Right now Obama is at 68. But the "buy" number is 69.8. And the sell is 68.1
While mcShame is now pushing 30.
Let's forget about the Dame of Shame! She's history! (Course she doesn't believe in history.. but no biggie!)
October 3, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
But TheraP, she has starbursty winks!
(Sorry. I'm afraid I'm a little stuck on that theme).
October 3, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Winks???
I thought she had a tic.
October 3, 2008 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is hurlworthy material. I warned you:
Tics? You're calling those little starbursts from heave tics? What are you, French?
October 3, 2008 4:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I saw it. There was once a time when writing such drivel would be an automatic career-ender, as no one would ever take you seriously again.
October 3, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Spain is the new enemy. So he must be Spanish.
October 3, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's English.
October 3, 2008 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Starbursts from Heave, huh.
October 3, 2008 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Starbursty Winks aside, Obama has now hit 70 at Intrade. And mcShame is at 30. Looks to me like he's headed into the 20's - to join bush.
October 3, 2008 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
For chrissake. Why is she even there then? What is the point? Someone please tell me.
October 3, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
John desperately needed bone to throw to the fundamentalist droolers, a misjudgment on his part IMO. But that's it, nothing more.
October 3, 2008 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
His own little "surge" as it were.
October 3, 2008 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if Elizabeth Dole turned down the VP nod?
October 3, 2008 6:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Eye candy for McCain to look at. That's why his tongue is thrusting all the time. He can't stop thinking about her.
October 3, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
October 3, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
He keeps rolling right along.
October 3, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I read yesterday that the NV Sec'y of State announced voter-registration numbers as of the end of August (?), and Ds lead Rs by 80,000!
October 3, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
They need to stop censoring Sarah Palin. Then she would appear on the TV.
October 3, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
October 3, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
In football, teams sometimes employ the prevent defense. This is when a team has a small lead near the end of the game, but the oposition has the ball. In the prevent defense, defenders hang way back to prevent any big passes from being completed, but to allow short yardage plays in the middle of the field. The idea is to force the other team to waste time with supposedly meaningless short gains. I hate the prevent defense. Too often the scheme backfires and the opposition drives down the field and scores a last second field goal and wins.
I always wonder why the team in the lead would change the style of play that got them to that point. The prevent defense a loser's strategy. Its goal is to play not to lose rather than play to win. It says "we're not confident in our team."
The funny thing is, it feels like the McCain/Palin team is playing the prevent defense with Palin. Hang way back and hope the other side doesn't drive the length of the field and score. They seem to have forgotten that you need to be sitting on a lead to even consider a prevent defense....not that I am complaining, mind you.
So, here's to hoping McCain/Palin continue to use the prevent defense.
October 3, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
That was quite educational for me. A good point you make. Maybe I would like football more if I understood stuff like that about the game. Nah, but still a good point.
October 3, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
October 3, 2008 5:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol... Yeah. I remember those skits. Sure wish SNL still had tobite they did then.
October 3, 2008 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol... Yeah. I remember those skits. Sure wish SNL still had the bite they did then.
Crap, hope this doesn't double post - had to fix a typing error...
October 3, 2008 5:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol... my fault, my fault...sorry. BTW, Hey the new server is working great, huh?
October 3, 2008 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Biden's son Beau is deploying this weekend to Iraq, so I expect he's spending as much time with his family as possible this weekend.
And after his excellent performance last night, the guy deserves a couple of days to see his family.
October 3, 2008 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clearly McLame's henchmen are hoping to preserve whatever small bounce she got out of the debate. She didn't completely tank, so let's keep her away from reporters who might ask difficult questions. Expect to see her at tightly-controlled fundraisers only. Whoops, I forgot...she and the Todd-ster will be up in Michigan talkin' to average Joe's at their dining tables about the price of meat loaf.
October 3, 2008 4:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin will be retired to giving exclusive Fox News interviews only(my opinion). If any MSM organizations wishes an interview, the McCain machine will dictate the rules, questions to be asked, and where to steer the interview(orchestration). They're going to fall back to infomercials as the only means they have of letting Palin speak without being tripped up with nuance of her meaning and intent. Pretty sad day in America. Doesn't speak well of our educational system. Says even less about the public's perception of the world they live in.
October 3, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
**pulls string**
"Politics is soo hard!"
October 3, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's only so much cramming and talking points one can do in a week's time - God forbid, George Stephenopolous should ask her a hard question like what year the War of 1812 was!
October 3, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't that war that General McClellan shined as brillant strategist?
October 3, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, wasn't he from Joisy? Anybody know what exit?
October 3, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Well, you know, in all of history there have been many wars as people fought for their freedom. We should never take our freedom for granted, because as Ronald Reagan said, freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. So no matter whether what year it is, we need to back our troops and not vote to pull their funding like Senator Biden and Barak Obama want to do. They just want to run up the white flag."
"And world peace."
October 3, 2008 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
No winky wink?
October 3, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
No. I forgot. Add them in anywhere. Also sprinkle in a couple of random maverick references.
October 3, 2008 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
*scrunches nose*... you betcha'!
October 3, 2008 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great story at FiveThirtyEight.com on the ground game:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/on-road-st-louis-county-missouri.html
October 3, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. You're right, great story. A real eye-opener, and very encouraging. Thanks for the link.
October 3, 2008 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Their whole series "On the Road" is really good.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/10/the-coming-landslide.php
October 3, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
People are coming up with their own "ground" games. A lady in the supermarket asked me about lawn signs when she saw my Obama button. I told her I'd been trying to get one for a month and they're in short supply.
But she's got a better answer: She intends to spray paint OBAMA on her lawn!
October 3, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I gave away ten signs over the past three days, two of them to total strangers. I maxed out on contributions several weeks agoI pulling $ from my IRA to do so. We all have to do what we can. Don't push the clutch in just yet, and keep the pedal to the metal.
October 3, 2008 7:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why don't they send Levi onto the Sunday talk shows to discuss his full desire to have kids, his hatred of casual underage sex and that his reference to "bitches" in his MySpace page was meant towards female wolves skulking around the wilds of Alaska.
Now THAT would be an interview!
October 3, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whoa!
Or hey - send Bristol and her fiance!
October 3, 2008 5:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Levi Johnston shoulda kept his Johnson in his Levis.
October 3, 2008 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe this is why she wouldn't want to go on the Sunday shows -- her tax records have just been released. Hmmmmm, it must be a Friday afternoon.
http://www.johnmccain.com/palinfinancial/
October 3, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, nice catch.. Look at those donation numbers. 1.5%? 3%? I thought Fundamentalists were supposed to give 10%. I bet Joe Sixpack wishes he could earn 166K/year, huh?
October 3, 2008 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
And where are those per diems?
October 3, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just your average family.... earning quite a bit!
By the way did anyone notice how Palin, in the debate slipped in saving for her kids to go to college? Well, the oldest is in the military after a couple of misspent years. And the second is... pregnant and getting married, but not even graduated from high school. Then the youngest is retarded. So by my count that leaves the two middle daughters only... who might be going to college.
But truth-telling is not her forte.
October 3, 2008 7:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where are the 2007 Itemized Deductions. Are they missing? I don't see them.
October 3, 2008 8:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oops, they're there, first page. Where's the 1040?
October 3, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
$4,250 to charity in 2006 not itemized?
October 3, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
The reason Sarah Palin is not going to be on any of the Sunday shows this weekend is simple.
Tina Fey is scheduled to once again portray Palin in Saturday Night Live's opening skit, which will be a parody of the debate.
In the actual debate, Palin came off as a parody of Tina Fey doing a parody of Sarah Palin, and Tina Fey has to top that. Expect a whole lot of winkin' and smirkin' and flirtin', you betcha.
It is going to be brutal, and none of the Sunday talk show hosts would be able to sit through an interview with Palin the next morning without cracking up.
October 3, 2008 5:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
BINGO!
October 3, 2008 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
There was a time earlier in this campaign when FOX Sunday News had a clock counting the hours, minutes and seconds that Obama had not appeared on their show. I wonder if there's a Palin clock?
October 3, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone seen the story on HP about McCain pulling out of PA? If that union head is right, McCain is in deep do do.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/mccains-could-give-up-on_n_131634.html
October 3, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Somebody hold me down - I'm floating off to the ceiling again -
pulling out of Pennsylvania?
O my god - it's so over. And Palin's in Texas -
If McLame shows up to debate next week I'll be very surprised.
October 3, 2008 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Next thing you know we'll hear about him being tarred and feathered and run out of some other state!
Keep him on the run!!!
October 3, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
You guys see this???
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/03/palin-flag-pin/
October 3, 2008 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess size does matter.
October 3, 2008 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
God, Fox and Friends should just be renamed The Lobotomy Show.
October 3, 2008 5:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rasmussen, new poll in WA:
O - 53 (+4)
M - 43 (-4)
October 3, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pulling ahead by 4 in NV, two NH polls in double digits (10 and 12). Not looking good for McCain and Ms. Winky Wink
October 3, 2008 5:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ahead by 4 in Nevada! Hell! The only blue spot in the entire state is Las Vegas! Everything else is deep red!
October 3, 2008 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Was deep red.
October 3, 2008 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
A re-post from above: I read yesterday that the NV Sec'y of State announced voter-registration numbers as of the end of August (?), and Ds lead Rs by 80,000!
October 3, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sweet.
I'm hoping to do some canvassing in Indiana this weekend. Maybe we can be the next red state to show Obama in the lead.
October 3, 2008 5:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
She has been blaming the MSM for not allowing her more than 90 seconds. It was the McCain-Palin campaign who arranged that limit. And it is the McCain-Palin campaign who still can't trust her to handle specific questions in real interviews.
October 3, 2008 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
OT: 538.com thread on comparing the Obama and McCain ground games:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/on-road-st-louis-county-missouri.html
October 3, 2008 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
ooops. Publicola beat me to it upthread. Sorry.
October 3, 2008 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Worth being posted twice.
October 3, 2008 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
What Misourah 777Crash Campaign?
October 3, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think Obama is trying to seal the deal in Pennsylvania as he did in Michigan - he really had a consistent presence in Michigan over the last couple of weeks. I could see him pull the same tactic in Penn to get McCain to drop out there and put McCain completely on the defensive the last three weeks of the campaign.
October 3, 2008 5:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmm. Dunno why BigO would want McSame to drop out of PA. If that state really is lost, it's an advantage to have McSame waste his resources there.
October 3, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
But at the same time, Obama can shift resources to other states like VA, MO and IN. He's got McCain on the run, and the best strategy is to keep him running. Right now McCain is pretty much down to the deepest of red states, and even these are starting to turn pink. This has the potential to turn into a landslide.
October 3, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain has more Palin problems. This from Andrew Halcro's blog:
http://www.pubrecord.org/component/content/359.html?task=view
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Palin Implicated By Witness in โTroopergateโ Probe
Murlene Wilkes, the proprietor of Harbor Adjustment Service in Anchorage, had originally denied that she was pressured by Gov. Palinโs office to deny state trooper Mike Wootenโs claim for workers compensation benefits.
But Wilkes changed her story two weeks ago when she was subpoenaed by Steven Branchflower, appointed in July to probe allegations Gov. Palin, abused her office.
Branchflower still intended to finish his report on the controversy by Oct. 10.
The workersโ compensation issue is likely to be a major focus of Branchflower's report.
Wilkes told Branchflower she believed it was impressed upon her from Palin's office that she would lose the contract if she did not deny the claim, state officials knowledgeable about her testimony said. Her contract with the state was up but her firm was recently given a new contract--for $1.5 million--despite the fact that there were others who provided the state with a lower bid than Wilkesโs firm.
Although Wooten did receive worker's compensation benefits for about three months, his claim was suddenly denied and he was forced to hire a lawyer and appeal the issue, which dragged on for more than six months. โOut of nowhere [Wootenโs] workers comp claim was contravened, which basically means he got a letter saying he wasnโt entitled to benefits anymore,โ Cyr said in an interview. Documents show that a state lawyer intervened in the case.
There's more to read, but this should be enough to keep McCain awake at night for the next 7 days.
October 3, 2008 5:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. There's a real shitstorm a-brewin' here. Uuuugly!
October 3, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like everyone else here, I have felt the urge to celebrate. It has been a very good couple of weeks, but it ain't over.
We all need to stay focused. Volunteer, give another donation...whatever you can do to keep this movement going strong. Proceed as if the polls showed an extremely tight race.
...BTW...I think I'm in love with HusseinTenaX...I'm just sayin ;-)
October 3, 2008 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
{{{{swoon}}}}}
flattery is always good currency with me. LOL~!
October 3, 2008 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
HusseintenaX?
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
October 3, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
You can't really blame her for skipping the Sunday shows. All non right-wing reporters are now out to be the one to spring the ultimate candidacy killing "gotcha" on Palin. They aren't really interested in probing her record or finding out more about how she would help McCain govern, they are out to prove a point -- that she is woefully unqualified for the office. They've set themselves up to be the quizzing inquisitioners.
It's kind of strange to ask, as Katie Couric did, a vice presidential candidate what magazines and newspapers she reads. What exactly was the point of that question? Was the background presupposition that maybe Palin doesn't know how to read? And the Katie was out to establish once and for all wether she can really read?
October 3, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clearly not thinking enough man.
Let's reiterate.
She's running for Vice President.
That means conceivably she could be President.
She's been on the national scene for about 5-6 weeks.
She's had two interviews, a speech at her party's convention and one debate. Her performances during all have been uneven to some degree or another.
At times she has shown a lack of real grasp of understanding on domestic and foreign policy issues.
It is by no means unreasonable for journalists and citizens to desire to have her subjected to more frequent and intense scrutiny during the last month before the election. It would seem very irresponsible to have people voting for or against her without having a better understanding and more examples of what she thinks, how she thinks and how she expresses those thoughts.
That should be the bare MINIMUM of what is required and desired. All three other candidates on the tickets are much more widely known and have been subjected to significantly greater scrutiny during the course of the campaign and they their careers. There has been no detailed public vetting of her finances, personal relationships, medical history or even public career to nearly the degree that Senators Obama, McCain and Biden have. That is unacceptable and now is the time for the public to learn these things. It's not about 'gotcha' it's about allowing voters to make an informed decision and its only fair since everyone else had to and continues to deal with it.
October 3, 2008 6:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
And why people keep harking back to that speech is beyond me. They sequestered her for days to practice that speech!
October 3, 2008 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Scrutiny is fine and is certainly appropriate and called for.
But do you think any candidate for any office has ever been asked "What newspapers and magazines do you read?" The background presumption to that question is that the interviewer suspects that the interviewee doesn't read anything. Who wouldn't be offended by such a presumptuous question?
October 3, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
When that candidate's answers to previous domestic and foreign policy questions suggest a general lack of interest in those issues and the debates surrounding them then it does seem like a reasonable question. Not to mention, the question itself isn't the controversy rather her lack of a coherent answer to such a question is.
No one asks the others that sort of question because generally speaking their discussion of issues don't lead one to question whether they are even aware of the nature of discussions being had about those issues.
October 3, 2008 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
"At times she has shown a lack of real grasp of understanding on domestic and foreign policy issues."
More accurately, AT NO TIME has she demonstrated any real grasp or understanding on domestic and foreign policy issues.
October 3, 2008 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
And if I were Katie Couric I would not be very happy about the "censorship" and "mainstream media" cracks that Palin made to Fox News today. Katie is now a scorned woman -- watch out!
October 3, 2008 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Katie has earned our undying gratitude. And if they go after her, I have this feeling that would be a big mistake.
October 3, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know, did I detect a slight bit of disappointment, if not recognition that she and the First Dude are being held out of the loop?
I think she's totally *jealous* of Biden's relationship with Obama! Ol' Joe gets to go around the country to all these swell places and, gosh darnit, doesn't John *trust* me?
October 3, 2008 6:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think we've got the Evil Jealousy Twins: mcShame and the Dame.
October 3, 2008 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
No it's the Maverick and the Cow!
October 3, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain is NOT a cow.
October 3, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
And was Todd consulted before Sarah volunteered him to visit auto plants in Michigan? Is he now a surrogate for the McCain campaign?
October 3, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thera- ur soooooo right. she took 5 days to rehearse that godawful speech and weeks to cram for that debate that she thinks in her head she won. No, her learning curve is alarming. The thing that makes me mad is how did John mccain think this person was going to be a viable VP candidate? What made himthnk that? She said in that fox interview that Obama should be disqualified because he does not meet the CIC threshold on Iraq. This two bit twit is going to tell us that Obama is risky? OBAMA!! The same Obama who has been campaigning for over a year as opposed to theis farce who has reared her head in the last 5 weeks. This has got to be the greatest act of irresponsibility, recklessness and judgement. I am so incensed right now I have to go and do something to calm down.
October 3, 2008 6:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
When Sarah closed with the "I wish we could debate more" comment (paraphrasing" I was stunned that Joe didn't IMMEDIATELY accept...
"What are you doing next Friday, Governor?"
Or, better still...
"Hey, let's both go on Meet The Press this Sunday - how about it?"
It would have ended the "debate" with him leaving the door open, and today would have been slam the door shut day for the McSame campaign gang.
Joe pissed away a stunning opportunity.
October 3, 2008 6:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
good point!
October 3, 2008 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
By contrast, yesterday was supposed to be Palin's triumphant return, where she was to prove that she can withstand scrutiny, despite her disastrous train-wreck interviews and her campaign's subsequent decision to pack her off to far more friendly media confines.
That's why she'll be nowhere to be found on the Sunday shows. She's going out on top. Why mess with a positive only two days after getting it and risk getting back on the embarrassment express train? She'll go back into hiding for a while and come out again when they need a cure wink or something, or if absolute hail Mary desperation time arrives.
October 3, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, if Tina Fey finishes taping SNL today (Friday), perhaps she'd like to fill in for Sarah on the Sunday shows - Aren't they taped on Saturday?
Will Palin even do The View - Highly unlikely. Tina can't go over to ABC and be a guest on The View - or can she? Will Palin go on The Today Show - and then perhaps Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) or Keith Olberman could be the "surprise" interviewers.
October 3, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tina has a future. SP... not so much.
October 3, 2008 7:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greg,
I think one reason Biden will not be doing any of the Sunday shows is because of his son being deployed. My understanding is that the families of will spend today through tomorrow night with their loved ones who are leaving for Iraq.
October 3, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin & McCain both are Farcisists.
Farsisists....when full of yourself meets full of shit.
She hoked it up with "don't ya know" & "Say it ain't so Joe", when she couldn't directly refute one of Joe Biden's claims.
Glitz & Glam are the signs of a sham.
Deep in the heart of Texas....deep in the red & treading water.
October 3, 2008 7:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin, and the McCain/Palin ticket, can be summed up in one word: Weak.
God help us, and our allies, that such a cowardly pair don't end up in the White House.
October 3, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain / Palin are headed to Bleak House, not the White House.
October 3, 2008 8:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sarah Palin is not going to the Sunday shows,because she can not handle follow up,like the question about extraordinary power that she assume her VP position will have.
October 3, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Biden's son was deployed today. He had to debate Jessica Rabbit last night. Let's give him the weekend off, ok?
October 3, 2008 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just what we need--someone in the White House who is constantly shielded from hearing hard questions or contrary statements.
Sorry, eight years of that bullshit is enough. Send shrinking violet back to fucking Alaska.
October 3, 2008 11:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Say it ain't so, ho, there you go again ducking questions.
October 4, 2008 12:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Glenn Reynolds, on string tub, and Sarah Palin, on flute, will be doing a gig down in Texas this Sunday with Ted Nugent. Just no time for the Sunday shows.
October 4, 2008 2:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
If the press ever gets to her I would love to see a replay of her answers to the press 8/17/2006 in the governor's race debate in Alaska. Would you believe no eye batting, folksy JOE SIXPACK, no stupid accent. In fact no dawg gone its. I guess someone told her that the lower 48 likes our candidates dumb. Pull up Cspan Program ID: 193920-1 under Sarah Palin and you will see the unbelievable difference. Fool us once, twice but not a third time. I think the big guys in the GOP told her that being as dumb as Bush would be an advantage with the electorate.
October 4, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink